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Persuasive Paragraph Activity

Persuasive Writing Commercials:

Ms. Wood's Example:

Word Study Practice

Friendly Letter Quiz

Ms. Wood's Read Alouds:

Reading Response Questions: Please look here if you need the questions to answer in the discussion tab.

Persuasive Writing: your purpose is to present information to your audience that persuades them to take your side on the issue. You must include a call to action.

Targets We've Hit:

• multiple paragraphs
• using the appropriate plan
• two-sentence introduction with topic and position
• personal accounts (in one sentence!)
• sentence structure: simple, compound in the predicate, compound, & complex
• using appropriate pronouns & first person point-of-view
• correct paragraph structure
• tense maintained
• two-sentence conclusion restating the topic and position
• use of imagery
• use of multiple modifiers
• proper nouns capitalized correctly with no stray capitals
• sentences capitalized with correct end punctuation throughout
• proper use of commas (in a series, in a compound sentence, as an aside)
• higher level punctuation (semi-colon, hyphen, quotations)
• proper use of contractions (apostrophe placement)
• subject/verb agreement
• staying on topic
• writing four or more detail sentences
• specific vocab (no "stuff" or "things" or "nice" or "cool")
• use of figurative language

Class Song Plan

Resources

Visual Thesaurus - Offers a visual to help link synonyms and antonyms of words.

Lingo To Word - Translates any lingo (i.e.-txt msg lgwg) to English and vice versa.

Fluency Practice - Fry's 500 Most Frequently Read Words - Words pop up on the screen for students to read for 3 seconds. As they work through the list with greater fluency, the words stay on the screen for 2 seconds, 1 second, and .75 seconds. Helps build fluency and automaticity with word recognition.